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#252: IKI

So Very Wrong About Games

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You Just Pocket the Income of the Stalls, Right?

The model of commerce here is deeply counterintuitive. I personally don't know if it maps on to the way that Japanese commerce ever worked. The salary, you just pocket. It's kind of like pocketing the tips or the wages of the waitresses and food chain magnet. And then you have to feed them. So they're not even really like independent business owners the way that it's represented in the game. They're kind of like new children that you're getting that work for you.It's thoroughly thematically bizarre. Mechanically, it works fine. You want to diversify the income that your different stalls can give you through their quote unquote salaries. But just every time

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